2009/2010: NY-20 absentee battle

NEW YORK:Here's an interesting one we caught late yesterday on NY-20: "The 10 county boards of election currently tabulating the vote in the race between Republican Jim Tedisco and Democrat Scott Murphy are rushing to provide party operatives on both sides with reams of data on every person who submitted an absentee ballot." And what are the campaigns doing with these reams of paper? They "are trying to get a sense of how the final tally might look by calling absentee voters and asking them to reveal their choice."